Respiratory Medicine

The Respiratory Medicine service treats adults with a full range of respiratory diseases including:

Asthma

COPD

Bronchiectasis

Cystic fibrosis

Sleep apnoea

Lung cancer

The service is staffed from across many professions and includes consultant doctors and their teams, nurse consultants in both respiratory and cystic fibrosis and their specialist nursing teams, alongside many staff from physiotherapy, respiratory physiology and other allied health professionals.

How to Access this Service

Services are available to people living in Belfast and those requiring more specialist advice and treatment from across Northern Ireland.

Referrals to the respiratory service are primarily made by your GP.

Patients who are under the care of the Belfast Trust will already have the contact details of their link respiratory specialist nurse who they can contact for advice. Specialist referrals to the regional respiratory services are usually made from a hospital consultant in your local area.

Location

Care can be provided in the patient’s home across the Belfast Trust area, at outpatient clinics or as an inpatient on the respiratory wards depending on the nature of the illness.

Outpatient services are provided on all hospital sites with general respiratory clinics dealing with a wide range of respiratory illnesses. There are a number of specialist clinics including those dealing with:

Asthma

COPD

Bronchiectasis

Cystic fibrosis

Sleep apnoea

Lung cancer and

Cough.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have a question you would like to ask about this service, click on the link below